Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

I'm more skeptical about older kids being sufficiently similar developmentally to each other to be educated similarly than about kids between five and ten. I'm skeptical because when I was in school I saw absolutely enormous differences in ability levels among the students, such that there appeared to be no possibility of educating them all appropriately with the same basic curriculum. However, I think it's possible that I'm thinking primarily of kids who are far enough above or below the mean that they belong in special ed.